The highest point of something

Usage examples of vertex.

Various kinds of poles are a point of a sphere, a place where a force is concentrated, the vertex of lines in that plane that belongs to a given linear complex, morphologically or physiologically differentiated areas of an axis, a point where a function complex variable becomes infinite so that the reciprocal of the function is holomorphic in the immediate neighborhood of the point---Are you listening, dog face?

The Spline must already be inside the squeezed-vacuum exoticity zone that surrounded the mouth of the wormhole itself, and soon the portal was so close that Jasoft had to press his faceplate against the warm Spline lens to make out its vertices.

As the formula, which we have developed and published here, shows, it is an organic product of substitution in which the styrolene radical and the molybdenum metal occupy the six vertices of a benzine carbide.

For this purpose Dostoevsky placed the idea at the vertex of dialogically in-tersecting consciousnesses.

As he spoke, the three tankers had nearly reached the points which had been determined by the Planning Organization, not absolute map coordinates but rather positions at the vertices of that imaginary triangle in the center of which the Sun King and the Alamo were being borne by the South Equatorial Current, Flettner sails, and oceangoing tugs toward South America.

Bousquet speaks of a primiparous mother, aged twenty-four, giving birth to 4 living infants, 3 by the breech and 1 by the vertex, apparently all in one bag of membranes.

The resulting coastline had the horizontal contours of a twisted, many-pointed star, with rounded nubs instead of vertices and edges.

The arms dangle in front and, moving repeatedly forward and backward, they draw an acute angle with its vertex between the legs (figs.

He began passing the vertex detector traces into the analog signal bus, and pulled out a blow-up overview of various detector slabs.

In diamond, the carbon atoms form tetrahedra, triangular pyramids with one carbon atom at each vertex and one in the center.

Translated, those marks read: 'Use Mizzarett Ergone Vertices For Health and Glowing Heat.

By comparison, her arms and legs were wispy nebulas and the back of her head nearly invisible, with a grand total of maybe a hundred 'sites placed around her scalp like the vertices of a geodesic dome.

Even with his genetically enhanced mind, Bashir had trouble counting just how many intersecting vertices the thing possessed.

Each green was joined to a small, monovalent red-on the top side if the vertex was raised, on the bottom if it was lowered and four of them also sprouted short horizontal spikes, built from a blue and a red, pointing away from the ring.

Every scrap of land in the town was owned by the Church, and the Holy Surveyors of Rome had (or so Jack phant’sied) come out here and planted Trinitarian transits on the land that had been miraculously reclaimed from Lake Texcoco and hung holy plumb-bobs made of saints’ skulls and stretched cords of spun angels’ hair, driven crucifixes into the ground at strategickal Vertices, and platted the land into quadrilaterals, each one butted snugly against the next.